• For them, grabbing residential land and reselling it to developers is a huge source of revenue.

    ECONOMIST: China's property market

  • In 2012, the average premium rate of residential land was around 8.9% in the second quarter, 15.08% in the third and 22.33% in the fourth.

    FORBES: In Just Three Months, Shanghai's Land Prices Double

  • Nine out of 14 residential land transactions in the first quarter of this year sold at an average premium over the sales price of a whopping 30.39%.

    FORBES: In Just Three Months, Shanghai's Land Prices Double

  • The data included all residential land transfers and all arms length transfers--a sale where the buyer and seller are not the same and price is greater than 3, 000.

    FORBES: Stinson Beach, Marin, CA

  • Meanwhile, the value of land sales in 130 Chinese cities fell 13% in 2011 to 1.86 trillion yuan, with residential land sales plunging 24% to 1.24 trillion yuan last year, China Real Estate Index System said in a separate note earlier.

    WSJ: China Home Prices Fall Again

  • Persimmon added that the early release of its third-quarter report - which had been expected in November - was due to "further pressure being experienced on selling prices and, consequently, residential land values" as a result of the current crisis in the financial markets.

    BBC: Persimmon lowers housing forecast

  • "There's clearly been a rapid appreciation in residential land values, but at the same time you've got to keep reminding yourself that you're buying a nonperforming loan, " says Curt Bailey, president of Related Midwest, a unit of Stephen Ross's Related Cos. that has expressed interest in the site.

    WSJ: Plots & Ploys: Hole-Sale Real Estate

  • Two major reasons for this are the conversion of prime agricultural land into residential and commercial development and rising land prices in areas surrounding this increasing encroachment.

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  • The constitution prohibits foreign ownership of land, with residential condominiums being the only exception in practice.

    WSJ: Business Asia: Investing: It's More Frustrating in the Philippines

  • Losses associated with commercial real estate, especially land development and residential building, were a major factor in the large number of U.S. bank failures since 2008.

    FORBES: Will banks' shifting portfolio mixes mean easier borrowing for businesses?

  • Raw land in desirable residential locations has largely run out.

    FORBES: How Is Federal Housing Policy Populist When Prices Are Rising?

  • The fourth site is for eight residential pitches on green belt land on the edge of urban development at Throop Road, between Woodbury Avenue and an area of allotments.

    BBC: Dorset gypsy sites consultation begins

  • In New York he re-zoned huge swathes of land from commercial to residential use.

    ECONOMIST: The new man intends to shake up his department

  • He had to convince local officials to rezone the land from office to residential and build a giant wall, a half-mile long and 200 feet deep, to keep the Mediterranean from seeping into the underground parking garage.

    FORBES: Second Empire

  • He had to convince local officials to rezone the land from office to residential and to build a giant wall, almost a kilometer long and 60 meters deep, to keep the Mediterranean from seeping into the underground parking garage.

    FORBES: Second Empire

  • In this case the owners of land located in the inner residential rings of cities.

    FORBES: The Housing Bubble Is Back

  • He said it would have stopped "land being brought forward for residential development, undermined the delivery of affordable homes and adversely affected the construction industry".

    BBC: Senator Ian Gorst

  • Because it takes virtually all residential property sales into account, the Land Registry's figures can provide a unique insight into not only national but local prices.

    BBC: House price surveys explained

  • The Atlanta Regional Multimodal Passenger Terminal Project is a part of a larger economic redevelopment plan for downtown Atlanta, and will also serve as a one of the catalysts for commercial and residential development on 120 acres of underutilized land in the area.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Anti-Deficiency Statutes often only work for residential property, not commercial property or raw land.

    FORBES: Foreclosure, Deficiency Judgments and the Perils of Anti-Deficiency Statutes

  • Chicago land prices for the best downtown residential sites are recovering, though rental developers have replaced condo developers as buyers, said Ron DeVries of Appraisal Research Counselors.

    WSJ: Deal of the Week: Chicago Condo Site Lives Again

  • The NHS plans to sell off its St Clement's Hospital buildings and land, while the site would retain some residential homes for patients, who are not ready to return to the community, and also the Foxhall House secure unit, for people referred there from the criminal justice system.

    BBC: St Clement's Hospital, Ipswich

  • The government plans to make available enough land for an average of 20, 000 private residential flats each year in the next decade.

    FORBES: Hong Kong's Chief Boosts Property Stocks

  • Many factory owners who couldn't afford to build new buildings because of the high cost of land and limited access to utilities converted hundreds of residential and other buildings into makeshift garment factories to keep up with the demand from Western retailers, labor groups say.

    WSJ: Before Bangladesh Collapse, Some Clothing Retailers Fled Risk

  • Some farmers are selling the land individually to other farmers who are consolidating their land, while the buildings are sold off for purely residential purposes.

    BBC: tractor

  • It could have been worse: Spanish banks have repossessed huge amounts of land that had not yet been built on, and residential-mortgage standards are rather conservative.

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  • CenturyLink, which provides a lot of residential phone services, understands that most of its customers will eventually see their land lines as dinosaurs not worthy of monthly payments.

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  • They also have limited options to zone land for high-density construction, due in part to grassroots opposition to existing residential neighborhoods.

    FORBES: New Geographer

  • Set up in the 1830s as a residential area for those who did not want to associate with the Europeans living in the French Quarter, the land parcels were large, the money used to fund the buildings was new, and each white-columned mansion was built to outdo the one before it.

    BBC: New Orleans outside of the French Quarter

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